Evaluation of determinants of spatial characteristics of employment in the informal sector of the Russian economy

The article regards the study of employment in the informal sector of the Russian economy. The main attention is focused on identifying the factors that determine the level of employment in the informal sector across the regions of the Russian Federation. To this end, within the frameworks of the selected groups of constituent entities of the Russian Federation, an analysis for the presence of a relationship between social and economic indicators and the level of employment in the informal sector of the regional economy has been carried out. The proposed methodological approach allows us to identify the factors and their dominant groups that form the territorial differences in employment within the informal sector of the Russian economy.